New Nutrition Facts Labels Unveiled

After 20 years, the FDA finally revised its "Nutrition Facts" label to provide some more useful information for shoppers, including added sugars. The new labels, however, will still befuddle most people because the FDA still only uses metric measurements like grams and milligrams which most Americans cannot associate with real world amounts as we pointed out four years ago.

Who Makes the Most Reliable Hard Drives?

If your hard drive fails and you don't have a backup, you're screwed. A company in the cloud storage business with over 60,000 hard drives has real world experience with which brands of hard drives fail the most. The results: over time, Hitachi made the most reliable drives with only a one-percent failure rate. The worst currently? Western Digital. Yikes!
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Mouse Print* -- Is LinkedIn Telling it Straight?

A few years ago, LinkedIn was hacked and about 6.5 million email addresses and passwords were stolen. Now it appears that possibly 117 million IDs were actually compromised and are now for sale, but you would never know it from the casual email sent to some users.
That story is this week in Mouse Print*.

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